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Xi: Any One Country Should Not Dominate AI

Is China's AI ambition driven by fear of falling behind or a strategy of theft and control?

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Xi: Any One Country Should Not Dominate AI

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Above: Xi Jinping before the opening ceremony for the World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 17. Image credit: Ng Han Guan/Pool/Getty Images

The Spin

Pro-China narrative

China's AI push is rooted in a deep fear of falling behind, shaped by memories of poverty and foreign exploitation. Xi's open-source stance at the Shanghai summit reflects a genuine effort to share AI gains globally. The U.S., meanwhile, is racing toward AGI with reckless spending while its own public grows angrier about the technology by the day.

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Anti-China narrative

Xi's lofty Shanghai summit speech about open-source AI and global cooperation masks a far darker reality: China's AI rise is built on industrial-scale theft, chip smuggling and iron-fisted CCP control. Beijing blocks foreign acquisitions of Chinese AI firms and jails founders who try to leave, proving the "open" rhetoric is pure performance.

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Metaculus Prediction

There is a 4% chance the U.S. and China will reach a formal agreement to limit frontier AI training or deployment before 2029, according to the Metaculus prediction community.